It's interesting that you feel safer in California. As a New Zealander visiting America I felt quite unsafe just seeing police offers with guns holstered. Just

It's interesting that you feel safer in California. As a New Zealander visiting America I felt quite unsafe just seeing police offers with guns holstered. Just the idea that someone standing nearby could decide to outright kill me if they decided to dislike me made me very uneasy. In New Zealand, I could (though I obviously would not) walk up and punch a police officer in the face, and while I could reasonably expect to have the police officer respond in kind, there is no chance that I would fail to live through the experience. I didn't feel confident that this was the case in the US.